Introduction : documenting the multiple stories of migration / Esteban E. Loustaunau and Lauren E. Shaw -- Part I. Enacting politics of place in the diaspora. Harvest of empire : affect and a counternarrative of Latino/a migration / Lauren E. Shaw -- Documenting deportable life : knowledge, performance, and memory in abUSed : the Postville raid and sin país / Jared List -- Resisting Arizona's S.B. 1070 through devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe : undocumented immigrant women's contentious repertoires in The vigil / Thomas Piñeros Shields -- The unending journey of the migrant mother in Los invisibles and De nadie / Esteban E. Loustaunau -- Part II. (Re)membering past and present lives. (Re)membering the Pedro Pan Children's Exodus in documentary film / Ada Ortúzar-Young -- Migration, exile, and identities in Abuelos, by Carla Valencia Dávila / Manuel F. Medina -- La Churona and the neobaroque aesthetic : mapping of a Transatlantic Ecuador / Lizardo Herrera -- Part III. Migrant identities and displaced subjectivities. Testimonial youth in flux : migration, narrative, and children in Which way home / Ramón J. Guerra -- Resistance in motion : small cinemas by Cuban women in the diaspora / Zaira Zarza -- Who documents the migrant? : decolonial aesthetics, Museo de América, and the Internet documentary / Juan G. Ramos -- Part IV. Conversations on documentary film and migration. Luis Argueta : migrant voices without fear : interview / by Esteban E. Loustaunau -- Jenny Alexander : breaking the silence through documentary filmmaking : interview / by Esteban E. Loustaunau -- Tin Dirdamal : intimate gaze of significant concerns : interview / by Lauren E. Shaw -- Heidi Hassan : love and identity in the Cuban diaspora : interview / by Lauren E. Shaw -- María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa : filming common experiences of migration : interview / by Esteban E. Loustaunau.
Summary:
This book is a collection of edited theoretical essays on the power of contemporary documentary film to voice the social agency of Latin American immigrants to the United States and Europe, and to reveal some of the global systemic conditions that generate mass migrations and lead to the dehumanization of undocumented immigrants. Linking the function of documentary to represent immigrants as performing agents whose voices generally are not heard publicly, this volume also features interviews with prominent documentarians whose films and videos respond to conditions of migration from a variety of perspectives.
Series:
Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America
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